Here are my seedlings. I planted 5 seed and 4 came up.I meant to write the date on a paper so I could remember when I got home when they were planted. It's on the tags, I think.
Sangs
I wish I could grow those. I have only been able to get those to live for 2 years tops though. Hoping to have better luck with arborea and flava though.
Eric, so far so good with these, but they aren't very old. It's still cool here and I keep the green house set to 50*F at night. Incredibly, the day it got to 110*F in the greenhouse, they weren't even wilted!!
Cala, believe it or not, I have had much larger sanguinea make it at 120 degree's. I don't think its the heat, but the virus that gets them in conjunction with the heat. All I can tell you is that I have got sanguinea seedlings to live in a greenhouse during the hot florida summers with the sides rolled down.
Cala - do you mind my asking where you got those seeds?
I had three 3' tall plants, all last summer, 2 kicked the bucket, then had one alive all winter, it just suddenly died for no apparent reason?? I believe what Brugmansia says, virus!
Gloria,
Lima, Ohio(not too hot here for them.)
Mine did the same thing,was alive for 1 1/2 years and then just up and died this winter.I'm gunna try again but not going to put it outside,see if that helps it.
Cala, are you sure those are sangs? The leaves on mine are serrated. They almost have the shape of an oak leaf. I grew what I thought were sanguineas last year from seeds. I'm positive now they're not... I think they may be suaveolens.
CC - did yours ever bloom? I wonder if the sanguinea hybrids are tougher.
those don't look like my sangs either.
My sangs also have the oak leaf shape.
I think I read on the Yahoo forum some time back that there are potato leaf and another kind. Tonny could answer any question about them, I'd bet.
I wish I had some better photos of this one ... These looks like sanguineas alright. New seedlings starts to put out the first leaves out with entire to sub-entire margin. The next 3-6 leaf pairs will gradually be more similar to the wavy-lobed sanguinea-style leaves, we know from larger plants ... to be sure look for dark green shiny leaves with densely (very densely) whiteish pubescence. The stem should have the same outspoken pubescence ...
LMK
Waaaaaah, I don't have pubescense!! I bought these off EBay, I will have to look up her name.
Will they just be plain white brugs?
Cala - take Tonny's advice and see if the next sets of leaves look differently. My NON-sanguinea seeds from last year came from a trade. I think the gal had purchased them but I'm not sure where from. Karma Happy-Toes also had some non-sangs that she grew. Hers came from T&M. They ended up being a white suaveolens type flower. She was not happy as it took 3 years to bloom. Mine had buds by the end of summer last year but they fell off when I brought them in. I still have the plants and they're pretty big now. No saying what they'll be.
If I can keep my baby sangs going I'll gladly send you one in spring. I have 2 that are pretty good size now - I'll put your name on one of them.
Thanks Poppysue, but they will probably do better in Maine than here where it's so hot and humid in the summer.
I will keep these and see what they look like in a couple of months. The only difference I could tell when they came up was that they were lots bigger than the other seedlings.
I also noticed that the trunk was so much fatter. Now that it is a little taller though, it tends to lean a lot. I wonder if we are supposed to remove bottom leaves on this variety. Anyone know?
Poppysue , mine never bloomed,I'm going to get more seed and try again.....